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St. Radegund (August 13) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
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- Aug 13, 2026
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Summary
A meditation for the Feast of St. Radegund of Poitiers, Queen of the Franks, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost.Saint Radegund (c. 520–587) was a sixth-century Frankish queen who became renowned for her holiness, charity, and renunciation of worldly power. Born to a royal family in Thuringia, she was taken captive by the Frankish king Clotaire I, whom she was compelled to marry. After Clotaire murdered her brother, Radegund courageously withdrew from the royal court and devoted herself entirely to Christ, eventually obtaining his permission to enter the religious life. She founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers, where she lived a life of prayer, fasting, penance, and extraordinary care for the poor and sick. She also obtained from the Byzantine Emperor a relic of the True Cross, which became a treasured possession of her monastery. Radegund died in 587 and was buried at Poitiers, where her tomb became a place of pilgrimage. She is honored as a model of Christian queenship transformed into humble service of God and the poor.Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readings of the Liturgical Year, from Trinity Sunday until Advent, were not directly authored by Dom Prosper, but were the work of his disciple Dom Lucien Fromage. Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year, a monumental fifteen-volume work, offers a comprehensive exploration of the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar, guiding readers through the spiritual and historical richness of the Church’s worship. Written in the 19th century,…